Apple to In Icon: No Steve Jobs Doll

By Jeff Gamet

Jan 5th, 2012 11:22 AM EST

Apple isn’t excited about In Icon’s plans to make a 12-inch Steve Jobs doll, and is apparently threatening legal action if the company follows through. The legal team for company that Mr. Jobs co-founded sent In Icon a letter telling them to stop production or face a lawsuit.

In Icon’s Steve Jobs life like doll

Apple’s lawyers told In Icon that it controls the company logos and product appearances, as well as names associated with the company, and that manufacturing the doll would be a criminal offense because it resembles Mr. Jobs, according to The Telegraph.

Threats of legal action, however, won’t be enough to stop In Icon from making the life like doll. In Icon’s Tandy Cheung toldABC News his company plans to keeps production running and expects to be selling its Steve Jobs doll by the end of February.

“Apple can do anything they like,” he said. “I will not stop, we already started production.”

This isn’t the first time Apple has gone after a company making a Steve Jobs-like doll. Earlier in 2011, Apple stopped M.I.C. Gadget from making and selling its Jobs action figure citing the same arguments it tossed at In Icon.

“Steve Jobs is not an actor, he’s just a celebrity. There is no copyright protection for a normal person,” Mr. Cheung said. “Steve Jobs is not a product, so I don’t think Apple has the copyright of him.”